Qme Place Inc

Overview

Mission

Services for low-income individuals

What it reported doing in 2024

LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS: Provided legal services for low-income individuals on a range of legal topics including landlord / tenant (LT), criminal records, tickets and warrants, credit and debt, family law, and other issues by: (a) providing weekly, virtual legal clinics; (b) providing two staff members Monday - Friday 9am-5pm, 40 hours per week minimum, web-based constant hot-line legal support to answer all questions; and (c) providing limited-scope services including research, document filing, counsel communication, and other advisory

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823250683
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
6502419491
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voluntarism Promotion

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.2%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.8%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 69.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 52.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.2% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $159K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • VINOD MAPRANATH (CHAIRPERSON OF BOARD AND CEO): $75,000 total reported compensation
  • KENNETH DIVELBESS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $65,000 total reported compensation
  • PAUL FREESE (DIRECTOR): $8,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.